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ucontext is an order of magnitude slower compared to most of the fiber implementation, mainly due to the additional signal mask operation. This change applies the trick provided in http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/tricks/fibers, which uses _setjmp/_longjmp to switch between contexts created by ucontext. Combine with NodeList improvement, we see 81% speed improvement with the example provided by Matthias Jung: https://gist.github.com/myzinsky/557200aa04556de44a317e0a10f51840 Compared with Accellera's SystemC, gem5 SystemC was originally 10x slower, and with this change it's about 1.8x. Change-Id: I0ffb6978e83dc8be049b750dc1baebb3d251601c Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34356 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.